Introducing Robert F. Miller, the 2008 Recipient of the Proctor Medal

摘要

I am delighted to have the opportunity to introduce the recipient of the 2008 Proctor Medal, Dr. Robert F. Miller. For more than three decades, Bob Miller has been widely recognized for his research on the electrophysiology, synaptic pharmacology, and neuroanatomy of the retina.Bob made his first contribution to retinal research while still a medical student at the University of Utah under Tom Ogden. Then, as a postdoctoral fellow under John Dowling in the Wilmer Institute at Johns Hopkins, Bob obtained the first recordings from Muller ceEs of the vertebrate retina. Miller and Dowling reported this finding at the 1970 ARVO meeting. Although the Muller ceE is a glial ceE, not a neuron, Miller and Dowling showed that it generated an electrical response to light. This remarkable finding stands as a landmark in the study of the retina.